Forget tiny pink dogs, gold-plated Xbox 360s or ruby-studded private jets full of a thousand exotic prostitutes; there’s a brand-new status symbol in Hollywood – the surname Jolie-Pitt.
In December, Brad Pitt decided that he wanted the adopted children of Angelina Jolie to take his name, and that’s exactly what a judge allowed yesterday. So now there’s a Pitt, a Jolie, two little walking, talking Jolie-Pitts and a tiny foetal Jolie-Pitt. And a probably quite annoyed Aniston too, but we won’t delve into that one.
But it’s typical isn’t it? You wait months for a Jolie-Pitt, and then three come along at once.
Brad Pitt (DVDs) has had quite the year. For him, 2005 was all about doing a sneaky breakup with GQ Man Of The Year Jennifer Aniston and then following Angelina Jolie around everywhere she went while denying that he’s got anything to do with her. At the beginning of December, though, Brad Pitt made the first inroads into something more official: he wanted to become the official Dad to Angelina’s adopted kids Maddox and Zahara.
That hasn’t strictly happened yet – it’s been reported that it’ll
take another round of legal proceedings for Brad to become Dad – but a
Santa Monica judge has deemed it acceptable for the kids to take Brad’s
name. Following a court hearing, Angelina Jolie’s attorney Evan Spiegal told E! News:
"Their names are Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt."
But is this name change any indication that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning to get married? That’s something that the couple are staying tight-lipped about.
Now that they’ve become Jolie-Pitts, though, Maddox and Zahara have to go through a rigorous system of change, involving getting all their credit cards changed, and writing the word ‘Pitt’ onto their kindergarten plimsolls with a knitting needle and some bleach. All very arduous, we’re sure. It’s probably easier that for the third Jolie-Pitt, Brad just decided to spuff up Angelina until she got instead of all this adoption business.
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[story by Stuart Heritage]